Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
BERTRAND RUSSELLOf all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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